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All Wired Up: Study finds that cell phone reception is getting worse

Fri, 03/25/2011 - 18:39 — stephaniarosas7

Have you noticed that your cell phone has been dropping calls more than usual? I had, but I assumed it had to do with my consistant cell dropping, cloudy weather and the fact I live in a semi-rural area that were contributing to my cut-off calls.Well, those factors still could contribute to my dropped call problems, but a recent study found that it could be the reception. J.D. Power and Associates recently announced that its consumer ratings have concluded that the quality of wireless phone calls has gotten worse for the past six months and that best-quality phone calls were made in 2009. The findings were published in Time Magazine's Techland on Wednesday. Smart phone users reported the poorest reception. One major factor in the poor quality of calls is the fact that more people are ditching landlines and using cell phones to make all indoor calls, where walls and windows hinder reception.***Did you know that the texting acronym favorite OMG ("Oh my God"), can be traced to its first use back as far as 1917? It's true, and it's found its way into the latest online edition of the Oxford English Dictionary. Also added this week were LOL ("laugh out loud"), BFF ("best friends forever") and IMHO ("in my honest opinion").